Environmental policy

At BrickMaps™, we want to play our part in building a sustainable future and making a positive impact on the planet our children will inherit. We are working hard to achieve our environmental sustainability ambitions: materials, packaging, carbon efficiency and zero waste. We strive to ensure a high environmental standard across our value chain, i.e. from our suppliers through to our customers and consumers. Our aim is to plan and execute activities that minimise or eliminate the impact on the environment from the production and life cycle of our products.

BrickMaps™ objectives are to protect natural resources by focusing on materials (including waste), and to reduce climate impact by focusing on greenhouse gas emissions. We believe we have a responsibility to minimise the environmental impact of our operations across BrickMaps™ including our extended lines and suppliers. We aim to become a more circular business with zero-impact operations. We seek to achieve this through a range of means – including pursuing sustainable technology and innovation.

Goals
Sustainable materials: To make BrickMaps™ from even more sustainable sources without compromising quality or safety. Only use materials which are recyclable and re-usable.
The material a BrickMap is currently made of is PVC, but it can be 100% recycled. We use environmentally safe ink which is hardened with the use of UV light (like a filling at the dentist).

Sustainable packaging: To make packaging even more sustainable and to promote the re-use of the packaging for storage of a BrickMap. We use cardboard tubes and boxes for packaging and shipping. We do not use full-colour imaging on packaging, with which we reduce the use of ink.
So please do not throw the cardboard tube packaging away, but keep using it for the safekeeping of your BrickMap!

Renewable energy: To continue to be balanced by renewable energy. To increase capacity of renewable energy and aim for carbon neutral operations.

Waste to landfill: To aim for zero waste from any BrickMaps™ factory, office, or owned and operated store.

Carbon emissions: To strive to eliminate the CO2 impact from making, transporting and selling BrickMaps™ products.

Approach to business activities
BrickMaps™ strives to continually improve environmental performance by embedding sustainability into our everyday. We embrace sustainable technologies, materials and practices. Even the food we eat.

Products and packaging: We are committed to researching, innovating and creating more circular products and packaging by design as we believe our products should never become waste. We consider the environmental concerns and impacts for our products and packaging including the use of sustainable materials, product development, distribution, consumer use and disposal.

Operations: We strive to minimise the end-to-end environmental impacts in our operations. We identify and adhere to all relevant environmental legislation and standards and we ensure that BrickMaps™ complies with all identified requirements. We also adhere to the UN Global Compact principles.

Suppliers: We seek to actively work with environmentally conscious and committed suppliers.